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phalanx

noun as in legion

noun as in toe

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Vaccines offered Moderna’s CEO, Bancel, a chance to advance a phalanx of new products.

A phalanx of police officers stood at attention on each side of the plaza.

When the surviving phalanx of Massachusetts volunteers arrived at the Capitol building, “they were a tired, dusty, and bedraggled lot of men, showing every evidence of the struggle which they had so recently passed through,” a doorkeeper recalled.

They marched us all — a phalanx of senators, staff and press — through multiple office buildings in search of the safest grounds to shelter on the Capitol complex.

All the confusion finally gave way to a Bowl Championship Series from 1998-2013, in which a phalanx of humans and computers would choose two teams to play in one championship game.

A phalanx of cops formed behind them as they started across.

A phalanx of money-changers runs between the shops, converting Pakistani rupees to Afghan afghanis to U.S. dollars on the fly.

Who can forget the indelible images of that White Bronco being chased by a phalanx of cop cars on June 17, 1994?

I was among more than a hundred protestors from Occupy L.A., and facing a phalanx of police with riot equipment.

Their carefully scripted words, examined beforehand no doubt by a phalanx of spinmeisters, were barely above a monotone.

He took office with the intention of carrying out the king's policy of breaking up the whig phalanx and bringing about a peace.

Again, how could a phalanx mount to the edge of the river bank, when it was precipitous and covered with brushwood?

What portion of the cavalry was it, then, that was on the centre of the phalanx, and was terrified by the elephants?

And what is it that brings disaster on those who employ the phalanx?Why the phalanx fails.

It remains now to compareThe Roman more open order compared with the phalanx.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to phalanx, such as: army, flock, horde, multitude, throng, and body.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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